Threat from ticks
Scotland is banning the use of the only spray that can control bracken, Asulox, whereas England will continue to allow it. Bracken harbours ticks which carry Lyme’s disease.
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Scotland is banning the use of the only spray that can control bracken, Asulox, whereas England will continue to allow it. Bracken harbours ticks which carry Lyme’s disease.
It was a call that I’d been dreading – last Thursday, Jeremy Hosking rang to say he’d had enough and was withdrawing his offer to buy Kinloch Castle on Rum.
There was only one Corran proposal on the table at the Highland Council meeting on the 11th May 2023, and all us local Cllrs supported it. It was for the maximum £50 million bid to the Westminster Levelling Up Fund.
The Highlands is becoming the home to a significant percentage of Britain’s green energy needs. Even before wind, our post war hydro dams made the Highlands 100% self sufficient in electricity.
A gorgeous castle on a Hebridean island with a world class sea view and a decent skelp of land for sale at possibly as little as a £1. Tempted?
I am a Highland Councillor for Fort William and Ardnamurchan but I write on behalf of all West Highlanders, there are few of any political persuasion who would not support my request below.
Edinburgh West MP Christine Jardine has today challenged the UK Government to cut long waits for driving tests and do more to block the reselling of block-booked driving tests as she revealed that three quarters of Scotland’s test centres have longer wait
Scottish Liberal Democrats have today announced homelessness and community campaigner Paul McGarry as their candidate for the Central Scotland and Lothians West regional list at the forthcoming Scottish election.
Scottish Liberal Democrats have today announced that local councillor and environmental campaigner Sanne Dijkstra-Downie has been selected as the party’s lead candidate for the Edinburgh and Lothians East regional list at next year’s Scottish Parliament e
Responding to the news that MV Caledonian Isles will require further work which will put it out of action for up to four months and that CalMac are now developing a new deployment plan for the entirety of the winter timetable which does not include MV Cal
Scottish Liberal Democrat net zero spokesperson and environmental campaigner, Cllr Sanne Dijkstra Downie has today criticised the SNP’s failure to deliver progress on reducing waste as analysis of new figures suggested that Scotland will miss key targets
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today said that the SNP must stop pretending that Scotland is immune from the sewage scandal, as Sir Jon Cunliffe publishes a report into the water industry in England, including a call to scrap Ofwa
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.